| Description |
214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Sociology of health and illness monograph series |
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Sociology of health and illness monograph series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part one. Science and clinical practice. Medical pedigrees and the visual production of family disease in Canadian and Japanese genetic counselling practice / Yoshio Nukaga and Alberto Cambrosio. Science versus care: physicians, nurses and the dilemma of clinical research / Mary-Rose Mueller. Bodies of knowledge: lay and biomedical understandings of musculoskeletal disorders / Helen Busby, Gareth Williams and Anne Rogers -- Part two. Constructing professional tools. The rhetoric of prediction and chance in the research to clone a disease gene / Paul Atkinson, Claire Batchelor and Evelyn Parsons. Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement / Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith and David Blane -- Part three. Assessing and regulating medical technologies. The science and politics of medicines regulation / John Abraham. "Strange bedfellows" in the laboratory of the NHS?: an analysis of the new science of health technology assessment in the United Kingdom / Alex Faulkner. |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Medical sciences -- Social aspects.
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Medical technology -- Social aspects.
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Sociology, Medical.
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Science.
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Technology, Medical.
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Research.
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| Added Author |
Elston, Mary Ann.
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| Cover Title |
Sociology of medical science & technology |
| ISBN |
0631204474 |
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